different between loud vs stormy

English

Alternative forms

• lowd (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: loud, IPA^(key): /la?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hl?d (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?daz, *hl?þaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lew- (“to hear”). Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek ?????? (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian ??? (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (slava, “glory”), ????? (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit ???? (?ráva, “glory”). More at listen.

Adjective

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. (of a sound) Of great intensity.

2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs vii. 11

     She is loud and stubborn.

3. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
4. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
5. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality

Synonyms

• (of clothing, etc): garish, gaudy

Antonyms

• (sound): quiet, soft
• (person): quiet

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

loud (countable and uncountable, plural louds)

1. (colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
   • 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro (page 103)

     The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]

2. (slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.

See also

• dank

Etymology 2

From Middle English loude, from Old English hl?de (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?da, *hl?dô (“loudly”).

Adverb

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. Loudly.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     Who knocks so loud at door?

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 14, pp. 71-72,^[2]

     Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

Anagrams

• Ludo, ludo, ludo-, ould

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hl?d.

Adjective

loud

1. Alternative form of loude (“loud”)

Etymology 2

From Old English hl?de.

Adverb

loud

1. Alternative form of loude (“loudly”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English stormy, stormi, from Old English stormi? (“stormy”), equivalent to storm +? -y. Cognate with Dutch stormig (“stormy”), German stürmig (“stormy”), Swedish stormig (“stormy”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: stôr'm?, IPA^(key): /?st??mi/
• Rhymes: -??(?)mi

Adjective

stormy (comparative stormier, superlative stormiest)

1. Of or pertaining to storms.
2. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.

   a stormy season or a stormy day

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]

     Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.

3. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.

   a stormy sound or stormy shocks

4. Violent; passionate; rough.

   stormy passions

Synonyms

• storm-wracked

Antonyms

• calm

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stormi, storemig, sturmy

Etymology

Inherited from Old English stormi?; equivalent to storm +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?rmi?/

Adjective

stormy

1. Affected by an instance of intense wind and precipitation; stormy.
2. Indecisive, fluctuating, inconsistent; lacking consistency or decisiveness.
3. Fractious or warring; affected by conflicts or disputes.
4. (rare) Bringing retribution.

Descendants

• English: stormy
• Scots: stormy

References

• “storm?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.